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March 31, 2015 11:16:05 IST

New formation needed: NCP

The NCP on Monday said a new formation is needed to provide opposition to the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre and the era of “anti-Congressism” is over with the BJP at the helm. NCP general secretary D.P. Tripathi, whose party was the ...

Merger of Janata Parivar could be announced next week: JD

The much-talked-about merger of Janata Parivar could be announced next week as most of the major issues have been ironed out, JD(U) today said. "The merger is bound to happen and it will happen sooner than later," JD(U) president Sharad Yadav told PTI.

Bihar Assembly elections: BJP goes all out to woo Dalits

The BJP, which faced a massive drubbing in the Delhi Assembly elections, is treading cautiously ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. In an attempt to bring more members of the Dalit community into its fold, the party will launch a mega ...

Congress workers protest Land Acquisition …

Patna, Mar. 25 (ANI: Congress party workers on Wednesday held a protest march here against the Land Acquisition Bill. The protestors were seen carrying banners denouncing Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre. They were also ...

Jairam Ramesh trashes Modi's defence of Land ...

Patna: Senior Congress leader and former Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming that amendments in 13 laws under Land Acquisition Bill were brought by NDA to provide for compensation and ...

Living in dissent

Times Panchanama: Calem-Sanguem Isidore Domnick Mendes The residents of Calem in the hinterland taluka of Sanguem have lived a life of uncertainty over the last 20 years. The lush green village of Calem has a population of 4,500 residents. It ...

My speech after Babri mosque demolition best: Nitish

PATNA: It was in the late 1980s when Nitish Kumar, the then MLA from Harnaut in Nalanda district, was moving around his constituency one day when a farmworker told him, "Why do you travel in your constituency daily. Everything is fine here. People ...

Ex-Gaya SSP awarded for ensuring fair LS election

Patna: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday awarded 2005-batch IPS officer, Nishant Kumar Tiwary, with the Best Electoral Practices Awards - 2014 (east zone) for security management during the Lok Sabha election last year as the Gaya SSP. ...

Hukmdev, the voice trending inside and outside Parliament

A socialist when he began in 1960, loyal to Lohia's principles, Hukmdev joined the BJP in 1993 and is now an admirer of Modi. To villagers of Mithila region, his speeches bring memories of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. To his colleagues in Parliament, his ...

Summer special trains on cards

INDORE: Summer special trains from Indore to Kochuveli, Patna, Pune, Jammu Tawi, Jaipur and Sealdah may start running next month. A meeting was held recently in Delhi between Railways minister Suresh Prabhu and Lok Sabha speaker and Indore MP ...

Murder Accused Pappu Yadav Tops List Of Best Performing MPs

A Five year of jail term did not stop Pappu Yadav from featuring in the list of best performing MPs. Data collected by PRS Legislative Research, shows Bihar MPs Rajesh Ranjan aka Pappu Yadav, Rama Devi and Omprakash Yadav, have outperformed ...

CM sets power record straight

Patna, March 22: Chief minister Nitish Kumar seems to be ever ready with audio and video tapes, be it of his political rivals or of himself. So it was on Sunday at Bihar's 103rd foundation day. Nitish chose an official function to remind people ...

Pappu Yadav once accused of murder now among best performing MPs in Lok Sabha

Pappu Yadav, the RJD MP from Madhepura in north Bihar, has to his credit participation in 57 Lok Sabha debates in the present house so far, the highest for any of the 40 Lok Sabha MPs from Bihar. “In fact, it is the highest for any sitting MP in the entire ...

Nitish-Manjhi's Poker Politics Rages On

PATNA: The gloves are still on, and inside them are knuckle-dusters of steel. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi who was unceremoniously ousted by his mentor and Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), leader Nitish Kumar are ...

Granta 130 book review: Mystic country

Granta 130: New Indian Writing Ian Jack Granta Books R599 Pp 288 WHEN THE first Granta on India came out in 1997, it celebrated its golden jubilee as a country in the middle of tumultuous change. Editor Ian Jack, no stranger to the land—he ...

Simi plotted to target PM Modi

Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) had hatched a plot to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his campaign trail in Chhattisgarh in last Lok Sabha elections, the police said on Wednesday. “Simi’s key leader Umer Siddique along with his ...

Naidu cracks whip on truant MPs

Venkaiah Naidu New Delhi, March 17: The next time a BJP MP plays hooky when Parliament is in session, he or she better watch out. If M. Venkaiah Naidu, the parliamentary affairs minister, has his way, the "truant" lawmaker may have to do sit-ups ...